Handle mounting



y 1932' I F. r. IRGENS 4 5 3 HANDLE MOUNTING v Filed June22, 1931 I I-NVENTO'R ATTORN EYS PM M3; 11, 1932 um'rso s'r-A'rss- Parent OFFICE m 1'. mm or .wauwa'msa. wzsooxsnr, assrenon a'o ou'rnoazan xo'roa's con.- rou'non', or mwamn, wrsoozssm, a oonroiwnox or moment m nim: Home Application fled June 22,3981. Serial No. 546,068. f

This invention relates to improvements inhandle mountings.

It is the object of the invention to provide an economicalform of shock absorbing tiller v handle whereinthe handle is readily mounted and detached and the freedom of yieldability thereof is subject to control.

While the invention is referred to with reference to tiller handles such as are com- 19 monly used on outboard motors and the like it is of general application to an handle installation where the features of t e invention will be of advantage.

Thedrawing illustrates partially in side elevation and partially in axial section, a fragment of an outboard motor engine and a tiller embodying this invention.

The outboard motor selected as a means of illustrating the application of the, invention 80 to practical usage ma be of the conventional type which turns bodily for steering. To the engine crank case 1 is bolted the ri 'd portion 2 of the tiller, and tapped soc et 3 in tiller portion 2 receives a mounting 'member' compnsing a bolted which is threaded therein and securely fa ened by locknut 5.

The handle member 6 has a rip portion 7 at its free end and a socket 8 at t e end requiring connection to the motor. Fitted into the so socket'of handle 6 is a tubular body 9 of elastic material such as rubber through which the bolt 4 passes. The ends of the elastic bed 9 are confined between washers 10 and 11 t e former being held by the head of the 85 bolt and the latter by a nut 12 used for adjustment.

The rubber sleeve 9 is preferably of such dimensions that when itis not subject to longitudinal compression it is freely receivable 60 intothe socket of handle 6 and freely removable therefrom. Byturning up the nut 12 toward the solid end of bolt the-operator is able to subject the rubber mass 9 to longitudinal compression which will expand its diameter until the mass fits ti htly within the rther compressocket of handle 6. Any sion to which it is subjected will compact its mass and render it less elastic. If only a moderate degree of compression is used the g rubber will engage the interior surfac of the handle member s with suflicient friction a hold the handle fast on bolt 4 while at the same time permitting it suflicient freedom of vibratory movement so that virtually all englue vibration is absorbed and the operators and on the %rip 7 is relieved thereof. Greater or less justment of the nut.

I claim:

.1. A handle mounting comprising a hau exibility is achieved by adwithin said end portion in-engagement with both of said members, and clamping means co-acting with said elastic mass and adapted to distort it transversely of said socket into pressure engagement with said members,

whereby to retain said members in assembly a while permitting elasticity of movement of said handle member with respect to said mounting member. I

3. A handle of the class described having in combination a threaded mounting device, a sleeve connected therewith, a tubular rubber massinterposed between said mounting device and said sleeve, retaining-means on saidmounting device confining said mass against axial displacement in one direction and a nut threaded to said mounting device and acting on said mass in opposition to said retaining means, whereby readily to distort said mass against the wall of said sleeve for frictionally retaining the sleeve in engagement with said mass.

4. The combination "with a handle bracket, of a bolt in threaded engagement therewith and'provided with a hea an annular rubber cushion mounted on said bolt, a nut threaded to said bolt and acting on said cushion for I memes the distortion thereof in e, radial direction I and a; handle member providied with a sleeve freely receivable over said cushion its 11mcompressed condition emi adapted. m en- 5 gaged ifl'nrough the expansion of seidi cushien I under the compression of said nuts.

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